This page deals with techniques of coercive interrogation and torture. While the references here do not directly involve technological mind control devices, the principles are the same. The newer technologies are just "improved" implements in torturers' toolboxes.
Parascope has the CIA's KUBARK interrogation manual online.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has some articles online dealing with torture. This article is titled "Torture and Its Consequences." (Here is a local version in a larger font.) First, it must be emphasized that merely "listing methods", a practice all too often used in the documentation of torture, is not an efficient way of dealing with the issue. Such listings cannot convey the real horror of a situation, and tend to separate "physical methods" from "psychological methods".Another informative article at the ICRC site is "How visits by the ICRC can help prisoners cope with the effects of traumatic stress." (Here is a local version in a larger font.)Second, it has to be underlined that visible and apparent lesions are only part of the story, and may indeed not be the worst part at all. ICRC delegates are trained to see beyond the mere scars or marks of torture they may initially see or be shown. "The worst scars are in the mind" (quoted from Dr. Sten W. jakobsson, Stockholm) [5], and it is much easier for torture victim to show the wounds on his back than to the about the wounds on the soul. What could be called the "WYSIWYG" (term meaning "What You See Is What You Get") approach to documentation should be avoided at a costs. Sequelae of torture have been widely documented elsewhere [6,7]. Unfortunately, many health professionals who work with asylum seekers, for example, have to produce "physical evidence" to prove that torture has taken place. Psychological evidence of torture has yet to be accepted in most countries as valid evidence.
This Covert Action Quarterly article, "Textbook Repression: U.S. Training Manuals Declassified," [*] describes some training and interrogation manuals recently declassified (including the KUBARK manual).
These documents at the KeelyNet archive discuss "communist" brainwashing, though it is now known that Americans were researching similar techniques at the time, often on nonconsensual subjects, as part of MKULTRA and similar programs. The first document in the file is a CIA report with an introduction by Allen Dulles, and the second is one of the Warren Commission documents. [*] In addition to describing brainwashing techniques, first document also contains a section on preparing individuals to resist brainwashing. The most important aspect of the brainwashing process is the interrogation. The other pressures are designed primarily to help the interrogator achieve his goals. The following states are created systematically within the individual. These may vary in order, but all are necessary to the brainwashing process:1. A feeling of helplessness in attempting to deal with the impersonal machinery of control.
2. An initial reaction of "surprise."
3. A feeling of uncertainty about what is required of him.
4. A developing feeling of dependence upon the interrogator .
5. A sense of doubt and loss of objectivity.
6. Feelings of guilt.
7. A questioning attitude toward his own value-system.
8. A feeling of potential "breakdown," i.e., that he might go crazy.
9. A need to defend his acquired principles.
10. A final sense of "belonging" (identification).A feeling of helplessness in the face of the impersonal machinery of control is carefully engendered within the prisoner. The individual who receives the preliminary treatment described above not only begins to feel like an "animal" but also feels that nothing can be done about it. No one pays any personal attention to him. His complaints fall on deaf ears. His loss of communication, if he has been isolated, creates a feeling that he has been "forgotten."